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Source: Early California Wills, California: California Society, D.A.R., 1952, 952 pgs.
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SPANISH WILLS CONTINUED 
 
6. Testator: Juana Sanchez de Pacheco. 
Date: 26 August 1853. 
Probate: 26 September 1853. 
Daughters: Petra, Sylvia, Francisca, Trinidad, Encarnacion, 
Rosa, Paulina. 
Son: Francisco. 
Witnesses: J. Alexander Yoell. 
Jose H. Schull. 
 
7. Testator: Guadalupe Soto, Rancho de Francisquito. 
Date: July 29, 1853 
Probate: Sept. 26, 1853. 
Witnesses: Cecilio Ramerez 
Prudenciano Lemeli 
Gervuimo Mesa 
 
8. Testator: Mariano Castro, seventy-nine years of age; 
native of Alta California. 
Date: July 22, 1854 
Probate August 8, 1856. 
Wife: Maria Trinidad Castro. 
Children: Merced, Barbara, Angela, Maria Josefa, 
Cresanto. 
Witnesses: Jose H. Scull 
Pedro Davidson 
 
9. Testator: Luis Peralta. 
Probate: 9 Sept. 1851. 
Resident of Pueblo de San Jose. 
Daughters: Maria Josefa Peralta. 
Maria Guadelupe Peralta. 
Sons: Vincente Peralta. 
Antonio Maria Peralta. 
Ygnacio Peralta. 

Witnesses: J.S. Forbes 
John Nobili, S.J.